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[Lucas Gonze]

Forgot to mention things I like about the music --

It's tuneful.

Wearing his Bach influence on his sleeve is unpretentious.

Detailed instrumental pieces for mandolin is an original angle.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like your dad's project.  I've been listening to his music for about
>  45 minutes now and it's working for me, though I wish he kept to
>  tempo.
>
>  I especially like that he's an amateur writer distributing his
>  compositions for amateurs to play.  That's just cool.
>
>  Still, it seems like he's making life harder for himself with his
>  publishing setup.  Putting all the pieces in a zip file just increases
>  the friction to checking any one of them out.  And the TEF thing is a
>  bit of a drag because, 1, it is, and, 2, the sit file for their viewer
>  doesn't work on my machine.
>
>  OTOH I don't have any better ideas.  My best shot so far is to
>  hand-write the tab and take a photo of it with my cellcam.  Check out
>  this mongrel:
>
>  http://flickr.com/photos/lucas_gonze/2417296149/
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > My Dad [1] has taken to composing for the mando over the last few
>  >  years (a benifit other than the music is I get his hand me down
>  >  mandos) and he is a lifelong windows users (the shame the shame). He
>  >  hands me files in TEF [2] format and I have gotten TEFview to work
>  >  well enough under wine. Its not a bad little app, I of course wish for
>  >  the unity of a xplatform oss app with an open format ..but whats a kid
>  >  to do with parents these days.
>  >
>  >  -tomhiggins
>  >
>  >  [1] http://rohuigin.googlepages.com/MYMUSIC.HTM
>  >  [2] http://www.tabledit.com/tefview/download.shtml
>  >
>  >
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